Net neutrality has been a big player in the business and technology news for the past few weeks. It's clearly a controversial subject. From the sidelines, the biggest question seems to be, “How will service providers' peering changes impact my business?” … [Read more...] about Net Neutrality: How Service Providers’ Peering Changes Could Impact Your Business
Server Vs Client Response and Duration Times
I’ve been working my way through some new Cisco NetFlow exports recently called ART which stands for Application Response Time. ART is part of Application Visibility and Control (AVC) and is an engine inside IOS that takes care of calculating application … [Read more...] about Server Vs Client Response and Duration Times
Application Performance Management
Once, the idea of knowing what applications are running on your network and knowing the application performance of each of them was only a want for administrators. Now, in the last few years especially, it seems that application performance has been on a … [Read more...] about Application Performance Management
Detecting Social Media Traffic
Detecting social media traffic on your network can be a painless process when using certain NetFlow and IPFIX exports. In this blog I will be going over both the benefits and the technologies that are associated with this level of network visibility. Here's a … [Read more...] about Detecting Social Media Traffic
Calculating Round Trip Time
Latency or Round Trip Time (RTT) was first introduced by Luca Deri. Due to its popularity, several vendors including Cisco, Riverbed, Plixer and others have introduced it into their export. The reason for the popularity is due largely to the fact that we can’t … [Read more...] about Calculating Round Trip Time
Application Performance Metrics : Cisco AVC Support
When searching for application performance metrics, what you’re looking for really depends on the application being monitored. A good question to ask yourself is: does the application I need to improve the performance of run locally on the computer without the … [Read more...] about Application Performance Metrics : Cisco AVC Support
Gartner Application Performance Monitoring
I was reading up on the latest release (January 2014) of the Gartner Application Performance Monitoring definition and found myself constantly thinking about how NetFlow or IPFIX can be used to deliver on the objectives that Gartner outlined. I think it is … [Read more...] about Gartner Application Performance Monitoring
Distributed view of Application Performance Monitoring
A Distributed view of Application Performance Monitoring doesn’t have to be an expensive endeavor. There are ways, on most networks deployed today, to gain insight into hop-by-hop latency, packet loss, retransmits, jitter, and many other application … [Read more...] about Distributed view of Application Performance Monitoring
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Good placement in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring is highly sought after by many vendors. The rich monitoring capabilities needed by a solution to participate in the quadrant is way beyond what most people consider possible … [Read more...] about Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Network Map Vs Application Map
Application Performance Monitoring needs to evolve from a Network Map to an Application Map. It is amazing to me that most companies do not have a map of the applications that their business depends on. When application performance is crawling, the network … [Read more...] about Network Map Vs Application Map
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